A Study of the Arabic Poetry of Rashid Al-Din Al-Watwat from the Perspective of Gerard Genet’s Textual Approach of in the Light of Comparative Literature

Comparative and intertextuality studies, especially by the French critic Gérard Genet, converge in the critique of the texts, in their view of the historical links between the literary texts and the study of influence between them. Hypertextuality is one of the textual sequences, which means, in particular, the relationship between the present text and the former text. Genet explicitly discusses the relationships of the impact in textual relationships and makes them essentially textual. This relationship should not be an explanatory one, and is reflected either in simulation or transformation. In this sense, the present study deals with the study of the Arabic poetry of Rashid al-Din al-Watwat, the Iranian poet who lived in the eastern part of the Islamic country and has pierced his tongue with the princes of Arabic poetry. This paper attempts to shed light on his poetry, an attempt to uncover the literary links in his poetry with religious texts and Arabic poetry in the light of textualism, to show the extent of the influence of the oriental Iranian poet on the Arabic religious and poetic texts. The results of the research show that Rashid Al-Din Al-Watwat was familiar with the Arabic literature and benefited from their words, meanings, and imagination in his poetry until we repudiate the Quran and the approach of rhetoric and the poems of the Jaahiliyans and Abbasids are clear and can be considered the best representative of Arab poetry in the second Abbasid era in the east of the Islamic country. As for how Al-Watwat dealt with this heritage and using it in his poetry, we have seen the presence of the three sections of the types of textual interactions in his poetry. Not only did the poet simulate and insert the word into his poetry, but rather he absorbed poetic meanings and turned them into poetic contracts. In the third section, the poet appears to possess the poetry corner, and he has created creative poems that compete with the masterpieces of Arabic poetry.